President FDR and Huey Long.
President FDR and Huey Long.
The Brain Trust
experimentation with federal programs
experimentation with federal programs
experimentation with federal programs
experimentation with federal programs
experimentation with federal programs
In his first inaugural address, FDR promised "a New Deal" for the forgotten man. This term came to be applied to FDR's domestic policies to help get the nation out of the Depression. The men who advised FDR, known as the "Brain Trust", developed FDR's economic policy and developed programs that became the backbone of the New Deal. This included regulation of the banks, regulation of the Stock Market, relief and public works programs, like the CCC and WPA.
Some people, Huey Long, among them, said that FDR's New Deal made the administration too beholden to big business. Others said it was just plain unconstitutional.
Because there were a lot of them, and they were mostly called by their initials.
He created the New Deal programs and was the first president to insert the government into the country's economics.